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Robert Jeffrey Trapp
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Observed Impact of the Lower Stratospheric Thermodynamic Environment on Overshooting Top Characteristics During the RELAMPAGO‐CACTI Field Campaign
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
14 may 2024
Melinda T. Berman, Robert J. Trapp, Stephen W. Nes...
Overshooting tops (OTs) are manifestations of deep convective updrafts that extend above the tropopause into the stratosphere. They can induce dyna...
Understanding the Impact of the Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Thermodynamic Environment on Overshooting Top Characteristics
DYNAMICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (UTLS) V POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2023
Melinda T. Berman, Robert J. Trapp, Stephen W. Nes...
Overshooting tops (OTs) are manifestations of deep convective updrafts that extend above the tropopause into the stratosphere. They can induce dynamic...
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Future changes in severe thunderstorm environments over the United States from CMIP6 models
UNDERSTANDING AND MODELING OF MESOSCALE AND SEVERE LOCAL CONVECTIVE STORM PROCESSES II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
Deepak Gopalakrishnan, John T. Allen, Robert J. Tr...
Severe thunderstorms are one of the hazardous weather phenomena that are characterized by strong winds, intense rainfall, large hail, and/or tornadoes...
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Environment-informed, convection-permitting dynamical downscaling for climate-change projections of hazardous convective weather
MULTISCALE MODELING OF EXTREME EVENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
Robert J. Trapp, Songning Wang, John T. Allen, Dee...
It has now been demonstrated rather convincingly that studies of hydro-climate extremes, especially those associated with convective precipitation, be...
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Evaluation of the skill of CMIP6 models in capturing severe thunderstorm environments over the United States
UNDERSTANDING AND MODELING OF MESOSCALE AND SEVERE LOCAL CONVECTIVE STORM PROCESSES I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
Deepak Gopalakrishnan, Carlos Cuervo-Lopez, John T...
Severe storms pose a significant threat to life and property. As thunderstorms are driven primarily by boundary layer moisture and mid-tropospheric in...
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The Impact of Human‐Induced Climate Change on Future Tornado Intensity as Revealed Through Multi‐Scale Modeling
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
27 july 2023
Matthew Woods, Robert J. Trapp, Holly Mallinson
A novel, multi‐scale climate modeling approach is used to show the potential for increases in future tornado intensity due to anthropogenic c...
Convection-allowing dynamical downscaling for hazardous thunderstorm risk assessment under past and future climates
MODELING ACROSS SCALES FROM GLOBAL TO CONVECTION-PERMITTING: WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND AIR QUALITY III ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 16 december 2022
Robert J. Trapp, Michael E. Baldwin, John T. Allen...
For more than a decade, we have used convection-allowing dynamical downscaling to assess the frequency and intensity of severe thunderstorms and atten...
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The use of an event-based pseudo-global-warming modeling approach to assess changes in extreme thunderstorm event characteristics
CLIMATE-INFORMED RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EXTREME EVENTS III ORAL
natural hazards | 16 december 2022
Robert J. Trapp, Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Holly Mallins...
Thunderstorms and their attendant hazards are well known to be controlled strongly by their environmental distributions of temperature, humidity, and ...
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